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...halting pace of the negotiations proved an asset in attacking the second challenge of SALT reporting. Said Talbott: "I've had the luxury, rare in deadline journalism, of time to evolve a historical perspective and to return several times to my various sources...
George M. Hanfmann, Hudson Professor of Archaelogy and curator emeritus of ancient coins at the Fogg, said yesterday "we're rejoicing to have them back--they're a great asset to the University...
...tour hasn't always been an artistic or financial asset, even as recently as Rudolf Bing's regime. "The tour is the albatross hung around the neck of the manager of the Metropolitan Opera. Eventually, I suppose, it will simply fall off from sheer economic weight... Whatever we do, the tour is artistically a scandal," Bing wrote in his memoirs...
...return, they let him know where they're at through the first dance sequence, Aquarius. The number, like all the rest, is infectuously buoyant. The camera unerringly swoons and follows the gliding choreography by Twyla Tharp: the film's greatest asset. Avoiding cute, stagey, Broadway production-type dance, Twyla Tharp has given new hope to musical choreography. The movements flow naturally; instead of watching a static dance number, we are taken by the camera into the movements, intrinsically swaying with them...
...school way, Fish dismissed Jimmy Carter as "the biggest asset the Republican party has," and rejected the notion that athletes are intellectually inferior. He said, "The last four presidents [before Carter] all played football for their college teams...